NARRATIVE EXPLORATIONS OF LIVED MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM : AN EPIC JOURNEY

ISBN-13: 9783639194661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str.

Bal Chandra Luitel

Opis

This monograph portrays my multifaceted experiences of learning and teaching mathematics as a student, a teacher and a teacher educator. Specifically, it encapsulates my epic journey of inquiry into the cultural contextualisation of mathematics teaching and learning in Nepali schools. Organised into six main chapters, it concludes with a construction of actual and preferred qualitative maps of Nepali mathematics curricula in which I have studied and taught. Subscribing to arts-based autoethnographic methods, my inquiry epistemology has been facilitated by knowing as phronesis, storying, deconstruction, interpretation, transformation, and reconceptualising self. With the main focus on my own educational journey, I have used multiple genres, such as story, poem, dialogue, and drama, to represent and interrogate my lived experiences. Because I have provided rich and thick descriptions of my educative landscapes, it may be possible for the reader to transfer this inquiry s epistemology, methodology and pedagogy to his/her own research and pedagogic contexts.

O autorze

Bal Chandra Luitel is a doctoral candidate at the Science and Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University.He has been working in Nepal as a teacher educator for about a decade.Bal uses dialectical, metaphorical, poetic and narrative logics for developing a vision of an inclusive and transformative mathematics education in Nepal.